TY - GEN
T1 - On the alignment between system architectures and organizational structures
AU - Strandberg, Tom
AU - Burton, Herb
AU - Verma, Dinesh
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Enterprises of today need to be agile in how they manage systems over their life cycle. The design of system architectures has received a lot of focus as a means to facilitate agility. Less attention has been paid to the relationship of the system architecture to the organizational structures of all of the entities involved in the system life cycle. A common, but inadequate, statement is that "the organizational structure shall mirror the product structure". This research introduces processes as "middleware", along with system architecture and organizational structure, to be included in the trade-off for effective system life cycle management. Important additional factors that must be considered include informal organizational structures and the maturity of products, process and organizations. This paper suggests a model of the problem description and recommendations for further research that can be adopted by practitioners and researchers in the fields of both engineering and organizational design. The paper builds on a previous paper by (Strandberg et al 2006) and elaborates on, in particular, the aspect of maturity.
AB - Enterprises of today need to be agile in how they manage systems over their life cycle. The design of system architectures has received a lot of focus as a means to facilitate agility. Less attention has been paid to the relationship of the system architecture to the organizational structures of all of the entities involved in the system life cycle. A common, but inadequate, statement is that "the organizational structure shall mirror the product structure". This research introduces processes as "middleware", along with system architecture and organizational structure, to be included in the trade-off for effective system life cycle management. Important additional factors that must be considered include informal organizational structures and the maturity of products, process and organizations. This paper suggests a model of the problem description and recommendations for further research that can be adopted by practitioners and researchers in the fields of both engineering and organizational design. The paper builds on a previous paper by (Strandberg et al 2006) and elaborates on, in particular, the aspect of maturity.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84878776619
SN - 9781622769292
T3 - 16th Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering, INCOSE 2006
SP - 133
EP - 147
BT - 16th Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering, INCOSE 2006
T2 - 16th Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering, INCOSE 2006
Y2 - 10 July 2006 through 13 July 2006
ER -